This blog is about alcoholism with particular emphasis on the destructive behavior patterns exhibited by those alcoholics who have not yet reached the final, self-destructive stage. In other words, most of them

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Mary Tyler Moore, R.I.P.

"Her father, George Tyler Moore, a clerk, and her mother, the former Margery Hackett, were both alcoholics... "

"In the 1980s, Ms. Moore admitted to having a drinking problem. It had
started, she said, when she was starring in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and
had finally reached untenable levels. (In 2000, Mr. Van Dyke told Larry
King that he was also an alcoholic and that he had also started
drinking heavily while working on the show.) Ms. Moore entered the Betty
Ford Center for treatment in 1984."